[PATCH 0/3] OMAP: Introduce Backlight driver for Sharp LS037V7DW01 LCD panel

[tomi.valkeinen@nokia.com (Tomi Valkeinen)]

On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 13:06 +0800, ext Bryan Wu wrote:

> > This kind of backlight is, in a sense, totally separate component from
> > the panel itself. All they have in common is that they are packaged in
> > the same physical display module, and they usually share the same
> > connector.
> >
> > I have seen three kinds of backlights on OMAP devices:
> > - on/off GPIO (like on 3430 SDP)
> It seems like that we need a gpio_bl.c driver for this kind of usage.
> 
> > - PWM based (zoom seems to have this)
> 
> I failed to find any PWM or Backlight code in ZOOM boards source file.
> Is that possible to us pwm_bl.c driver which is used by pxa?

It's not yet in the official kernel. You can find it in
arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-zoom-display.c in my tree, under devel-branch.

I haven't looked at pwm_bl.c, but I wouldn't be surprised if there
already was a driver we can use for this.

> > - Panel controlled (Taal-panel. Also PWM based, but OMAP doesn't see
> > that)
> >
> Yeah, I don't plan to reform this driver at this time.
> 
> > The first two could (should?) be totally separate backlights from the
> > panel itself. For those, a generic backlight driver could perhaps work.
> > The third one needs to be quite tied to the panel driver, and I'm not
> > sure how easy it would be to have a separate driver for that.
> >
> 
> OK, I totally understand you concern now. How about a GPIO based
> backlight driver for the first 2 cases.

GPIO based backlight driver would work properly only for the first case.

 Tomi